What is a command you accidentally taught your pet?
My goldendoodle puppy doesn’t ever want to come back inside. I told my beagle “go get your sister” as I tried rounding up the puppy. Now when I say “go get your sister” the beagle runs to the puppy and baits her into chasing him into the house.
Taught my cat not to use his claws. This was when him and I were playing together one night. The really cool thing about it is he caught a chipmunk one day. And I talked him into letting the chipmunk go by repeating, no claws, no claws!
My dog would walk right on my heels and nearly trip me. Taught her “after you” kind of accidentally and now she goes ahead a distance and then waits for me if I’m not fast enough.
We put a battery powered doorbell on the door leading outside. My puppy Veronica quickly caught on but mostly rang it when excited rather than when she needed to go out.
But about six months ago it kicked in what it’s for and she’ll surprise us by going across the house to hit the bell and tell us she means business.
So it wasn’t exactly accidental but took a year.
Also same as yours, “Go get your sister.” She’ll go try and figure out what her older sister is up to and bring her back.
My cat has learned how… delicious? ear wax is. I was itching my ear once, she started licking my finger, and now if I even raise my right hand near my head she flips out and runs up into my space just in case it’s ear wax time.
Note I don’t actually have a ton of ear wax or feed it to her, but something about my finger after I scratch my ear just drives her crazy.
Cat seems to like strong body smells, we had an amazing cat when I grew up, completely black, short but very compact fur, with tuffs of hair on her ears, she was a mix between a siamese, norwegian forrest cat and swedish farm cat, she was an amazing huntress as well she caught a lot of annoying fieldfares snd mice, even came home with the tail of a squirrel once…
Anyway, she really liked the smell of my toenails and would even lick the clippings.
I wonder why…
She also LOVED my moms home made apple pie, she could resist meat, fish chicken and other stuff like that being left out, but apple pie… she just would not care and go straight for it, even if we were in the same room and she knew she wasn’t allowed on the table, that was the one thing she was obsessed with…
Cats are sensitive to a protein in our earwax so they find it appealing. I had a cat so obsessed he would hunt down my ear plugs (I had to put child locks on the bedside table drawers). Occasionally the earplugs would fall out in the middle of the night. One morning they both fell out and I grabbed one and thought I may have accidentally dropped the other. My cat raced in out of nowhere and I chased him away but I couldn’t find the plug. Fast forward twenty four hours later and I found a full ear plug in a pile of vomit. Thank goodness he was ok, but that damn cat zoomed in and swallowed that earplug whole in a millisecond and it makes me laugh thinking about it to this day.
It wasn’t a command, but I distinctively remember the first time my cat growled at me for picking him up and I set him down immediately. Now it’s his way of telling me to let him down whenever. So I guess he taught me the command instead!
It’s nice to know when your pets are unhappy - they deserve respect too. However, my stupid dog growls when he’s unhappy and being picked up but also when he’s very happy being dried after a wet walk. So. Yeah. Not super helpful
Yes! He’s really built up his confidence saying no. He’ll even gently kick my hand off if he doesn’t want to be picked up when he’s laying down. I think it really builds up trust as well. He may be a little grumpy but he’s wonderful.
For a while he learned that "this is the last one" meant we were about to stop playing fetch and he'd pretend to have noticed something odd or been distracted to avoid bringing the ball back and having it taken away. We worked through that one with some treats, so now "this is the last one" means "treat upcoming".
We air dry our clothes on a balcony he doesn't often get to access and he gets to walk out with us when we're doing that and bark at birds and neighboring cats (which is why he isn't allowed out there all the time). He's learned to set up camp next to the door when he hears the washing machine beep after a wash cycle. Also when he sees us grab the container we use for the laundry, in case we're about to go pick up a dry load.
I train my cat to speak. I wish I knew it was forbidden cursed knowledge. She dose not shut up. If it's 10am and im late on breakfas, she will meow non stop.
My cat and I slow blink at each other a lot. She usually wants to eat breakfast on the catio, but it’s not fully screened in yet, so I would prefer she ate inside as it attracts other cats and sometimes ravens. I stand in the doorway and ask her to come in, but if she slow blinks and then keeps her eyes closed while still pointing her face at me I know she’s not coming in. That’s my signal to put down the damn cat food woman, it’s al fresco today!
Did I teach her “eyes closed for outside breakfast” or did she teach me “give up when I squinch my eyes closed at you”?
My dog responds to swear words by doing the kinds stuff you see emotional support dogs do in videos- press on your chest, give you kisses, nuzzle your face, etc.
Except she's small, blind, and a bit... intense, so she kinda launches into you if you're sitting, with some intense affection.
IDK why. I guess we don't swear very often, ao when we do, its special, and we swear with enough gusto for her to think we're very, very upset.
My cat Siegfrieda thinks that “bitte” (please) means “free petting”. That’s because I usually tell her bitte when she’s taking too long to obey the command. For example…
Zizi! Komm nach Hause! (Zizi, come home!)
[Siegfrieda ignores me to chase the shadow of a butterfly]
Frieda, komm nach Hause. Bitte. (Frieda, come home. Please.
My Chihuahua mix is a very eager lapdog, couch potato, and bedbug. However if she is in any of those places and I say, ‘excuse me,’ or, ‘I gotta get up,’ then she knows it’s time for her to move and gets out of the way for me.
My dog is like that. She lays in my spot in the bed until I’m ready to get in, and then I tell her “scooch” and she moves to her spot. When we cuddle in the morning, she knows that, “ok/alright,” means it’s time to get up and go pee.
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